huge topic:Americans keep getting fatter

[eavesdropper]

[quote=briansd1]…Should government regulate and raise the prices to save us from ourselves? Or should the people be free to consume cheap stuff?

We’ve decided to let the buyers beware. So, with that predicate, fat people are responsible for their own problems. The fact is that one can’t gain weight unless one consumes more calories that one expends.

If we force fat people to pay proportionately more for their health care, maybe people would make adjustments to their eating habits.[/quote]

Alas, brian, they will not. They will simply get themselves a lawyer who will get them a doctor who will testify that they are totally disabled and cannot work. Presto! Social Security disability judgement. Monthly cash payment. Free health care. Scooters and Med-Lift recliners with heat and massage.

Check out the SS disability diagnosis trends, and how they’ve changed over the past 20 years. As a nation, we decry the increase in obesity as an “epidemic”, yet we are subsidizing that epidemic. Doctors and lawyers that earn their living by aiding Social Security disability applicants repeatedly emphasize the importance of obesity in the determination of benefits process. For instance, if you are obese and have low back pain, you are not only much more likely to be approved for benefits, but also less likely to have a time limit placed on those benefits (due to the widely-held belief that weight loss is usually not maintained) than another LBP applicant who is not obese.

[an]

[quote=XBoxBoy]Not all Americans are getting fatter. I’ve lost 38 lbs in the last year, so there!

SkinnyBoxBoy[/quote]
Agree, not all Americans are getting fatter. I’ve also lost 15-20lbs (10-14%).

[an]

[quote=XBoxBoy]Not all Americans are getting fatter. I’ve lost 38 lbs in the last year, so there!

SkinnyBoxBoy[/quote]
Agree, not all Americans are getting fatter. I’ve also lost 15-20lbs (10-14%).

[an]

[quote=XBoxBoy]Not all Americans are getting fatter. I’ve lost 38 lbs in the last year, so there!

SkinnyBoxBoy[/quote]
Agree, not all Americans are getting fatter. I’ve also lost 15-20lbs (10-14%).

[an]

[quote=XBoxBoy]Not all Americans are getting fatter. I’ve lost 38 lbs in the last year, so there!

SkinnyBoxBoy[/quote]
Agree, not all Americans are getting fatter. I’ve also lost 15-20lbs (10-14%).

[an]

[quote=XBoxBoy]Not all Americans are getting fatter. I’ve lost 38 lbs in the last year, so there!

SkinnyBoxBoy[/quote]
Agree, not all Americans are getting fatter. I’ve also lost 15-20lbs (10-14%).

[eavesdropper]

[quote=flu]Actually, obesity is a big problem in China now..
I guess with increased prosperity, people end up gorging more.

So, relating this back to the economy, if we go through a economic depression, do people gain or lose weight?

On one hand, being poor, probably means you have to scale back on food…

On the other hand, being poor, you end up eating the cheapest things (like $99 burgers or some crap like that).

So which way do American’s weight go when we have an economic depression?

BTW: have you folks been to McDonald’s lately? I have to say, I went to the one in Carmel Valley last week (kid wanted to go), and wow the menu has changed. Well, you still can get the fast food crap, but they actually have some pretty decent healthy food that’s not bad tasting too.[/quote]

flu, while I think you’re on the money (no pun intended) with your improved economic conditions theory, I’d place some of the blame on globalization. McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chix, Pizza Hut, and others have all made major inroads into the “fast food” culture that has hit China in the last 20 years. However, China has the problem of childhood obesity under control: they’re ordering 5-minute waltzing sessions in their schools. All of the teachers are not in agreement: some believe that calisthenics would be a much better solution, while others fear undesirable fallout from the sessions. Teacher Ma Yanling opined, “Letting students waltz will create hotbeds of adolescent love.”

As for what Americans in reduced circumstances will eat, I don’t agree that most Americans eat fast food and junk food because it’s cheap. I don’t think it IS cheap. I think many just don’t want to cook, or know how to prepare food.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=flu]Actually, obesity is a big problem in China now..
I guess with increased prosperity, people end up gorging more.

So, relating this back to the economy, if we go through a economic depression, do people gain or lose weight?

On one hand, being poor, probably means you have to scale back on food…

On the other hand, being poor, you end up eating the cheapest things (like $99 burgers or some crap like that).

So which way do American’s weight go when we have an economic depression?

BTW: have you folks been to McDonald’s lately? I have to say, I went to the one in Carmel Valley last week (kid wanted to go), and wow the menu has changed. Well, you still can get the fast food crap, but they actually have some pretty decent healthy food that’s not bad tasting too.[/quote]

flu, while I think you’re on the money (no pun intended) with your improved economic conditions theory, I’d place some of the blame on globalization. McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chix, Pizza Hut, and others have all made major inroads into the “fast food” culture that has hit China in the last 20 years. However, China has the problem of childhood obesity under control: they’re ordering 5-minute waltzing sessions in their schools. All of the teachers are not in agreement: some believe that calisthenics would be a much better solution, while others fear undesirable fallout from the sessions. Teacher Ma Yanling opined, “Letting students waltz will create hotbeds of adolescent love.”

As for what Americans in reduced circumstances will eat, I don’t agree that most Americans eat fast food and junk food because it’s cheap. I don’t think it IS cheap. I think many just don’t want to cook, or know how to prepare food.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=flu]Actually, obesity is a big problem in China now..
I guess with increased prosperity, people end up gorging more.

So, relating this back to the economy, if we go through a economic depression, do people gain or lose weight?

On one hand, being poor, probably means you have to scale back on food…

On the other hand, being poor, you end up eating the cheapest things (like $99 burgers or some crap like that).

So which way do American’s weight go when we have an economic depression?

BTW: have you folks been to McDonald’s lately? I have to say, I went to the one in Carmel Valley last week (kid wanted to go), and wow the menu has changed. Well, you still can get the fast food crap, but they actually have some pretty decent healthy food that’s not bad tasting too.[/quote]

flu, while I think you’re on the money (no pun intended) with your improved economic conditions theory, I’d place some of the blame on globalization. McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chix, Pizza Hut, and others have all made major inroads into the “fast food” culture that has hit China in the last 20 years. However, China has the problem of childhood obesity under control: they’re ordering 5-minute waltzing sessions in their schools. All of the teachers are not in agreement: some believe that calisthenics would be a much better solution, while others fear undesirable fallout from the sessions. Teacher Ma Yanling opined, “Letting students waltz will create hotbeds of adolescent love.”

As for what Americans in reduced circumstances will eat, I don’t agree that most Americans eat fast food and junk food because it’s cheap. I don’t think it IS cheap. I think many just don’t want to cook, or know how to prepare food.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=flu]Actually, obesity is a big problem in China now..
I guess with increased prosperity, people end up gorging more.

So, relating this back to the economy, if we go through a economic depression, do people gain or lose weight?

On one hand, being poor, probably means you have to scale back on food…

On the other hand, being poor, you end up eating the cheapest things (like $99 burgers or some crap like that).

So which way do American’s weight go when we have an economic depression?

BTW: have you folks been to McDonald’s lately? I have to say, I went to the one in Carmel Valley last week (kid wanted to go), and wow the menu has changed. Well, you still can get the fast food crap, but they actually have some pretty decent healthy food that’s not bad tasting too.[/quote]

flu, while I think you’re on the money (no pun intended) with your improved economic conditions theory, I’d place some of the blame on globalization. McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chix, Pizza Hut, and others have all made major inroads into the “fast food” culture that has hit China in the last 20 years. However, China has the problem of childhood obesity under control: they’re ordering 5-minute waltzing sessions in their schools. All of the teachers are not in agreement: some believe that calisthenics would be a much better solution, while others fear undesirable fallout from the sessions. Teacher Ma Yanling opined, “Letting students waltz will create hotbeds of adolescent love.”

As for what Americans in reduced circumstances will eat, I don’t agree that most Americans eat fast food and junk food because it’s cheap. I don’t think it IS cheap. I think many just don’t want to cook, or know how to prepare food.

[eavesdropper]

[quote=flu]Actually, obesity is a big problem in China now..
I guess with increased prosperity, people end up gorging more.

So, relating this back to the economy, if we go through a economic depression, do people gain or lose weight?

On one hand, being poor, probably means you have to scale back on food…

On the other hand, being poor, you end up eating the cheapest things (like $99 burgers or some crap like that).

So which way do American’s weight go when we have an economic depression?

BTW: have you folks been to McDonald’s lately? I have to say, I went to the one in Carmel Valley last week (kid wanted to go), and wow the menu has changed. Well, you still can get the fast food crap, but they actually have some pretty decent healthy food that’s not bad tasting too.[/quote]

flu, while I think you’re on the money (no pun intended) with your improved economic conditions theory, I’d place some of the blame on globalization. McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chix, Pizza Hut, and others have all made major inroads into the “fast food” culture that has hit China in the last 20 years. However, China has the problem of childhood obesity under control: they’re ordering 5-minute waltzing sessions in their schools. All of the teachers are not in agreement: some believe that calisthenics would be a much better solution, while others fear undesirable fallout from the sessions. Teacher Ma Yanling opined, “Letting students waltz will create hotbeds of adolescent love.”

As for what Americans in reduced circumstances will eat, I don’t agree that most Americans eat fast food and junk food because it’s cheap. I don’t think it IS cheap. I think many just don’t want to cook, or know how to prepare food.

[jimmyle]

I was in Vietnam two years ago and my cousins rewarded their kids (for doing good in school) with KFC foods which suppose to high-end in Vietnam. The kids were collecting KFC coupons in newspapers and got very excited. The reason they don’t go to KFCs too often is because it is expensive, imagine when it becomes affordable like in the US.

[jimmyle]

I was in Vietnam two years ago and my cousins rewarded their kids (for doing good in school) with KFC foods which suppose to high-end in Vietnam. The kids were collecting KFC coupons in newspapers and got very excited. The reason they don’t go to KFCs too often is because it is expensive, imagine when it becomes affordable like in the US.

[jimmyle]

I was in Vietnam two years ago and my cousins rewarded their kids (for doing good in school) with KFC foods which suppose to high-end in Vietnam. The kids were collecting KFC coupons in newspapers and got very excited. The reason they don’t go to KFCs too often is because it is expensive, imagine when it becomes affordable like in the US.

[jimmyle]

I was in Vietnam two years ago and my cousins rewarded their kids (for doing good in school) with KFC foods which suppose to high-end in Vietnam. The kids were collecting KFC coupons in newspapers and got very excited. The reason they don’t go to KFCs too often is because it is expensive, imagine when it becomes affordable like in the US.

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